As exciting as the 45-38 loss last season that LSU gave Texas was watching the deployment at the Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and on national television, there will be no comeback fight. AL.com reported Thursday SEC is moving to a 10-game schedule, conference-only for a 2020 season impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning the rematch scheduled between the Longhorns and Bayou Bengals scheduled for Baton Rouge on September 12 is closed. .
According to a report by Brandon Marcello of 247Sports, the SEC’s list of 10 games will begin on September 26.
The SEC made the official move shortly thereafter, accompanied by the announcement that the SEC title will move Dec. 5-19 at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
“This new plan for a soccer schedule is consistent with the educational goals of our universities to enable the safe and orderly return to campus of their student populations and to provide a healthy learning environment during these unique circumstances presented by the COVID-19 virus, “Commissioner Greg Sankey said. “This new schedule supports the security measures that each of our institutions is taking to ensure the health of the communities on our campuses.”
With the Big Ten and Pac-12 previously announcing decisions to switch to a conference-only schedule and the ACC going to an 11-game schedule with 10 conference games, the Big 12 is the only Power Five league that still takes a decision on what the 2020 season will be like from a programming point of view.
The league hosting Texas and nine other full-time members announced Thursday that the press conference days, which moved from July 20 to 21 to a one-day virtual event on August 3, are canceled without date ( s) announced presentation. That news came immediately after GoPowercat.com (owned by 247Sports in the State of Kansas) D. Scott Fritchen reported that the K-State head coach Chris Klieman He said during a Zoom conversation with the Manhattan Rotary Club on Thursday that Big 12 was scheduled to hold “a Big 12 emergency meeting right after this call to learn more about what we will do in the fall.”
According to multiple reports, the Big 12 and Commissioner Bob Bowlsby’s preference has been to play a full 12-game regular season. Marcello reported earlier Thursday that the conference was analyzing multiple timetables: a nine game conference calendar, a 10 game conference calendar, a nine plus 1 calendar, a 10 plus 1 calendar and a full 12 game calendar.
With the LSU game now out of hours, the Longhorns have out-of-conference home games scheduled with USF (September 5) and UTEP (September 19). While the NCAA has provided a general waiver for FBS teams to move their first game of the season to August 29 if they so choose (Kansas added Southern Illinois to the schedule for a Week 0 game, while Oklahoma moved its played with Missouri State on the last Saturday in August), there is no indication of the forty acres if the Longhorns plan to start the season a week early.
What was to be a two-year home-to-home series between Texas and LSU will now only be a one-game game, a contest won by eventual national champion Tigers. Coach Tom herman saw his team come face to face with Ed Orgeronsquad thanks to monstrous departure by quarterback Sam Ehlinger, who threw 401 yards in his highest career in a 31-for-47 performance with four touchdowns to accompany a rushing touchdown and 60 yards on the ground.
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After Cameron dicker reduced the deficit to six points (37-31) with 3:59 to play, the Texas defense was in a position to return Ehlinger the ball with the chance to win the game. Unfortunately, the LSU quarterback and eventual Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow He had other plans when he defeated the Longhorn bombing at third and 17 with the No. 1 overall pick. # 1 in the 2020 NFL Draft finding an eventual first-round pick Justin Jefferson for a 61-yard touchdown to freeze the Tigers’ victory.
